Resources

Mental Health and Wellbeing Tips for Teenagers

Published 2018. When you’re a teenager life can feel overwhelming – lots of changes are happening, you’re making decisions about your future, and it can feel like there’s a lot of pressure on you. We hope that these tips can help you through some of these bad times and give you some ideas and tools to help you improve your mental health or to make things easier when you’re struggling.

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Hints and Tips for Parents experiencing Poor Mental Health

Published 2018. We spoke to different groups of parents across Scotland and put together some hints and tips that we hope will help people in a parenting role who may be struggling with poor mental health. We hope these will help you and make it easier to know where to start when it comes to looking after your health and wellbeing.

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Enjoying a drink and staying safe as we get older

Published 2016. We spoke to older people who told us what they do to stay safe when enjoying a drink. Here are their tips if you, or someone you know, would like some advice on how to still enjoy drinking alcohol whilst looking after yourself.

People Having More Choice in their Lives

Tips for People Working with Vulnerable Women with Complex Needs

Published 2017. For women with chaotic lives, thinking about your health and wellbeing can be hard to do. We hope staff will use these notes to support and encourage the women they work with to look after their health and wellbeing.

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Home from Hospital booklet

Published 2017. The Falkirk Moving Assistance project produced tips for people who are thinking about moving house. The suggestions came from the experiences of older people in Falkirk District and their families. People told us that another situation where it would be good to have some tips is when someone is coming home from hospital. This booklet is for people who are in hospital and for their families and friends. It also lets people plan ahead in case they have a spell in hospital.

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Top Tips for people who work with older people in the community

Published 2017. Flourishing Borders is a project that encourages good mental health and wellbeing among older people.This set of tips are for people who work in community settings. You can have your own Happiness Habits Café, or you can use the ideas here as part of what happens in groups and activities that you support.

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